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Crooks, Joyce – Library Journal, 1976
The civil liberties issues involved in the keeping of public records certainly arose prior to the use of computers, but automated information systems have, beyond any question, aggravated those issues involved in all areas of application and have made the need for legal protection crucial, if we are not to see a synergistic development of national…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Computers, Confidentiality, Databases
Fosdick, Howard – Library Journal, 1980
Examines the development of the microcomputer and focuses on its potential for library automation. The characteristics of microcomputers and minicomputers are contrasted and a selected annotated bibliography includes a list of specialty magazines on microcomputers. (RAA)
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Circulation, Library Networks, Library Technical Processes
Freedman, Maurice J. – Library Journal, 1984
This essay defines traditional library technical services (acquisition, cataloging, processing, circulation control) and addresses questions concerning impact of automation on future of these services in following areas: professional and paraprofessional staff, reorganization, relationship between technical services and other areas of library,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Futures (of Society), Library Automation
North, John; Bishop, Elizabeth – Library Journal, 1983
Describes the process of implementing an online circulation control system in a multidisciplinary Canadian university. Included are origins of the system, agreement with the area library network, ordering equipment, planning and preparing the physical site, the use of barcode labels, student identification cards, activation of the system, and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Fines (Penalties), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Amdursky, Saul J.; Hulsey, Richard; Brandau, Christie Pearson – Library Journal, 2003
Includes three articles that debate whether interlibrary loan (ILL) is the best way to get public library patrons what they need. Highlights include return on investment; funding; alternatives to ILL, including purchase on demand and online full-text databases; cost effectiveness; and the advantages of patron-initiated ILL through interconnected…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Full Text Databases, Interlibrary Loans, Library Acquisition
Lettner, Loretta L.; And Others – Library Journal, 1985
Three articles present: results of survey of use of videocassettes and audiocassettes in academic and public libraries; (2) results of a survey of library collections of audiocassettes of books and their acceptance by patrons; and (3) a description of the operation of a videocircuit by a regional library system. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiotape Cassettes, Higher Education, Library Circulation